Intro to Religion Test 3

civic

Swearing an oath in court is an example of a __________ ritual.

petition

_______ is a request for favors of a spiritual or material nature from a higher power.

Penance

__________ allows one to make up for or absolve themselves of transgressions.

Tradition

__________ is Latin for "to hand down."

adoration

__________ is the acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the sacred over the person.

Orthodoxy

__________ is the maintenance of certain standards of religious belief.

Heresy

__________ means illegitimate.

dualism

__________ postulates that evil is the result of a conflict between good and evil powers, both of which share some characteristics of sacred reality.

liberation

__________ theology asserts that you cannot be on God's side without also siding with the poor.

cults

__________, at least at the beginning, are viewed with suspicion by other faiths.

thanksgiving

Saying grace before a meal is an example of __________.

ablution

Washing prior to prayer is also called __________.

defined

Washing prior to prayer is also called __________.

children

When participation in the continuing life of the people is central, it becomes important to have __________.

the denial of divine supremacy

Which of the following is not one of the four classic patterns of responding to evil?

Zoroastrianism

___ is a religious tradition which originiated in Persia about six hundred years before the common era.

the Hebrew word for the place of the dead.

"Sheol" is:

Schism

A __________ is a divide related to authority.

initiation

A wedding, because it symbolizes a transition from childhood to adulthood, is a rite of __________.

grace

According to Christianity, salvation cannot be earned but is a freely given gift of God called __________.

logos

According to Plato, __________, or absolute reason, allows one to shed attachments to the material world.

Church of Latter-Day Saints

An example of an American-born cult that is now widely accepted is the __________.

theodicy

Cathy wants to know how her friend Jane believes in an all-powerful, all-knowing, and good God, even though there is so much unexplainable suffering and pain in the world. Another word for this "problem" of evil is ______ (which can also be defined as "discussions of divine justice").

orthodoxy

Clashes between fundamentalist and modern Muslims are an example of problems relating to __________.

revelation

Cults generally claim to have received a new __________ from God.

karma

Heera is a Hindu, and her friend, Mariam, is a Muslim. Heera is explaining to Mariam the Hindu belief that people get what they deserve in the long cycle of time. Which concept is Heera explaining?

God is there, hanging with the child.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel witnessed the public hanging of a young boy by the Nazis. The boy hung there in mid-air, struggling, and did not die for about thirty minutes. In the face of such horrific suffering, someone in the crowd asked, "Where is God?" Wiesel answered:

reckoning

In Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, Judgment Day is a day of __________.

antropodicy

In contrast to divine justice, this term refers to the justice of humanity:

transition

In many religions, death is seen as a __________ before rebirth into a new form of existence.

seasons

In many religions, temporal rites are related to the __________.

completion

Martin Luther King's speech to his followers in which he stated that he had seen the "promised land" was a reference to the ideal of __________.

remembered

One feature of salvation is the basic human desire to be __________.

Holocaust

The Nazi destruction of European Jews under the leadership of Hitler is referred to as the _____ .

sovereignty

The appeal to __________ asserts that, because humans cannot solve the problem of evil, that job falls to God.

dualism

The conflict between Angra and Spenta is and example of:

health

The emergence of cults can serve as a barometer for the cultural __________ of a society.

liturgy

The worship in Christian communities is called __________, which means "public worship."

bar mitzvah

Through the ritual of __________, a Jewish boy becomes an adult in his faith community.

apocalypse

the Hebrew word for the place of the dead.